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Reply With QuoteFeb 4, 2012 - OK - I dropped the Malawi seed in a prepared rockwool cube and placed the cube in a dark warm closet.
Malawi Gold ScrOG with Magenta Kessil
Here is what I am doing:
Holy Smoke Malawi Gold Regular Seed from Attitude
Modified Lordjin Tote
Flora Nova Bloom (Scottyballs method)
RO Water
Kessil H350 Magenta LED
1 to 4 6500K CFLs as needed during veg.
Blue Labs pH pen
Blue Labs ppm pen
Fans
Timers
power outlets
Welcome and enjoy,
Mo
Day 1
Feb 4, 2012 - OK - I dropped the Malawi seed in a prepared rockwool cube and placed the cube in a dark warm closet.
Last edited by Mohican; 04-27-2012 at 04:50 PM. Reason: typo
Day 7 - day 1 veg
For six days I paced and checked the rockwool cube – nothing.
On the seventh day (Feb 10, 2012) I had a beautiful African baby!
Built a temporary grow system
I didn't have the Lordjin Tote system built yet so I built a temporary system out of a net pot and 5 gallon bucket:
It has an air-stone and a small water pump in the bucket and the water shoots across and lands in the shot glass, overflows and pours over the Hydroton. The light is a 5500 K CFL from Home Depot because they do not have 6500K bulbs (what the...). The light is mounted on an old tripod.
I have another air-stone in the tupperware with Hydroton, water, and H2O2 to clean them.
Look Ma - I'm growing medicine!
Cheers,
Mo
Building the Lordjin Tote
SO now that the baby is OK I can get to work on the Lordjin tote. If you are wondering what a Lordjin tote is you can search for Lordjin on RIU and read his Babe and Dank OG ridden journals - great stuff.
Of course I was going to do all of this on the cheep because I know a better way...
So instead of getting a big pump and using PVC and sprinklers, I built a watering system with my tiny pump and a ring of tubing with holes punched in it.
LJT Version 1 watering ring:
The two blue air-stones are from PetSmart. They keep floating!
The LJT assembled:
Notice the pie tin reflector - I polished it up with some mothers metal polish - it was very shiny!
The reason I am growing indoors this time
I am growing inside this time because my Mr Goo was covered with little caterpillars:
Do you see it?
Subbed! I've really wanted to grow an African sativa sometime, so I'll be interested to see how this one turns out.
That's not a feminized seed, right, so you're just crossing your fingers and hoping it's a lady?
EDIT: Shit, I just realized you didn't say it was open to comments. Sorry, I forgot about that rule!
Grow journal: Dinafem Super Silver ScrOG (then SOG) (Soil w/ ~300w CFLs)
Or if you just want to see the pictures: ScrOG album and SOG album
Welcome Ark! Please comment away. You are my first subscriber - I am honored
Day 3 vegging
The watering ring plus the big net pot was not getting enough water to the roots so I modified the watering system to pour the water over the top of the Hydroton:
Cheers,
Mo
Day 11 vegging
Still looking OK, but the leaves were not as dark green. I needed better sprinklers, which meant I had to get a new pump, PVC pipe, and sprinklers. I did not use any glue on the pipes, they fit together tightly and I did not want any toxic glues in the water. Drilled and threaded the holes in the PVC for a perfect fit with the 360 degree micro sprinkler heads:
Installed:
I also got some good air stones and a fly strip (which is always getting stuck to something and gets gooey crap on anything it touches).
I put it all back together under two 6500K CFLs (Ace Hardware) with reflectors and the Kessil H350 and let her rip. The lights and sprinklers were all controlled with timers and I was set!
New setup:
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